Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 13

Thread: Hello out there!

  1. #1
    Guild Apprentice thomryng's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Tacoma, WA
    Posts
    39

    Post Hello out there!

    Good monring!

    My name is Thom Ryng, and I'm a game designer and amateur map-maker. I use Photoshop pretty exclusively, but I'm always keen on finding new and better (and easier) ways of working.

    I stumbled here in my quest to improve the look and feel of my maps, and I have to say I'm already a little overwhelmed with the amount of talent and skill here.

    Here are some samples of my maps:

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	flat_map_a1.jpg 
Views:	49 
Size:	2.43 MB 
ID:	30255

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	Golmath_1525.jpg 
Views:	43 
Size:	1.06 MB 
ID:	30256

    Click image for larger version. 

Name:	flat_map_c3.jpg 
Views:	47 
Size:	3.02 MB 
ID:	30257

    cheers,

    thom

  2. #2
    Community Leader Facebook Connected Ascension's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    St. Charles, Missouri, United States
    Posts
    8,392

    Default

    Not bad at all. All I can really say is that you might want to get more creative fonts (but still legible) and the mountain and hill symbols repeat too often so you might want to make up a few more to break up the repeats. Otherwise these are top-notch political maps. Nice job, man.
    If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
    -J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)


    My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps

  3. #3
    Community Leader NeonKnight's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Location
    Surrey, Canada, EH!
    Posts
    5,051

    Default

    Welcome to the Guild!

    Nice maps there!
    Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User

    Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice!

    Any questions on CC3? Post them with CC3 in the Subject Line!
    MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave

  4. #4
    Community Leader Facebook Connected Steel General's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Location
    Ft. Wayne, IN
    Posts
    9,530

    Default

    Welcome Aboard and thanks for sharing some of your work!
    My Finished Maps | My Challenge Maps | Still poking around occasionally...

    Unless otherwise stated by me in the post, all work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.



  5. #5
    Guild Apprentice thomryng's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Tacoma, WA
    Posts
    39

    Default

    Thanks for the kind words. I look forward to learning a lot. Just started my first tutorial...

  6. #6
    Community Leader mearrin69's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Location
    Portland, OR
    Posts
    2,318

    Default

    Welcome to the Guild! Nice maps, have some rep!
    M

  7. #7
    Guild Apprentice thomryng's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Tacoma, WA
    Posts
    39

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by mearrin69 View Post
    Welcome to the Guild! Nice maps, have some rep!
    M
    Cheers!

    My very first rep, huzzah!
    Thom Ryng

    Cruenti Dei Line Editor
    Sardarthion Press

    "The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is very nearly reasonable, but not quite." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy)

  8. #8
    Guild Novice Halo of Gnats's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Near Dusk
    Posts
    23

    Default

    Hi Thom,

    Disregard my reply from the other thread. The color scheme of the second piece reminds me a little of first edition Axis and Allies. It does, however,
    also remind me of older 70's maps with strong regional and political delineation as was common then. I like them.
    Good on you for the rep.
    Your quote reflects my current mood these days. Thanks for the introduction. Look forward to more of your work.

    Namasté,
    ~Tim

    P.S.: Were these pieces created in photoshop?
    Last edited by Halo of Gnats; 10-20-2010 at 11:13 PM.
    Steel engravings, Gothic lettering,
    A bar of sulfur left in a cabinet,
    The heavy tollings of insomnia,
    Sunrises and sunsets and twilights,
    Echoes, undertows, sand, lichen, dreams,
    I am nothing but those images...


    The Maker by Jorge Luis Borges

  9. #9

    Default

    Very nice maps indeed, Thom. It's interesting to have people already making maps coming to the guild and posting their work. Quite often they have an original take on things that eventually subsumes into the collective. I'm probably wrong, but I don't think I've ever seen a map here which is so district rich. Makes perfect sense for a board game of course!

  10. #10
    Guild Apprentice thomryng's Avatar
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Tacoma, WA
    Posts
    39

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Halo of Gnats View Post
    Disregard my reply from the other thread.

    P.S.: Were these pieces created in photoshop?
    Ha! Too late, Tim - I already replied on the other thread.

    And yes, everything is in Photoshop. Oh, the layers!
    Thom Ryng

    Cruenti Dei Line Editor
    Sardarthion Press

    "The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is very nearly reasonable, but not quite." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy)

Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •